Dean Song brought up the morning’s events again. "Xiao Wang, I need you to do two things right away. First, imdiately initiate the procurent plan for the Ding Group’s pharmaceuticals. Their ’Dragon Bone Powder’ and a few other dicines—I want them all brought in. Second, go draft a letter of appointnt right now. Heh, if the Guanghe District Hospital of Traditional Chinese dicine can hire him, why can’t we?"
Dean Song paced around his office, looking rather impatient.
"Oh, right!" He suddenly rembered sothing and asked, "You just said that Li Xu is still here at our hospital?"
"Yes, Dean," Xiao Wang replied. "I just saw him with Dr. Lin Guorui from the internal dicine departnt. It looked like they were about to clock out and go get sothing to eat."
"Quick, go invite him over!" After saying this, Dean Song waved his hand. "No, I’ll go myself."
But on second thought, Dean Song felt it was inappropriate. For a dean like him to go running over in such a rush would be beneath his station.
"Never mind, you go," he said to Xiao Wang. "Just say that I’ve heard about his deeds and admire him greatly. I’d like to invite him to my office for so tea and a chat."
"Yes, Dean!"
...
「The hospital’s first-floor lobby.」
Lin Guorui had already changed out of his white coat and was discussing dinner plans with Li Xu.
"Dr. Li, I know a Huaiyang restaurant nearby. Their Crab Roe Lion’s Head atballs are absolutely incredible! We should..."
Before he could finish, he saw the dean’s assistant, Assistant Wang, jogging over.
"Dr. Li, Dr. Lin."
Assistant Wang greeted them politely before turning to Li Xu. "Dr. Li, our Dean Song heard about how you saved the day today and has the utmost admiration for your dical skills. He specially sent to invite you to his office for so tea."
"Dean Song?" Li Xu and Lin Guorui were both taken aback.
Lin Guorui imdiately understood; he knew that Li Xu’s miraculous dical skills had alerted the hospital’s highest level of managent.
He quickly said to Li Xu, "Dr. Li, this is a great opportunity! You should go! I’ll wait for you here. We can eat anyti!"
Li Xu nodded and followed Assistant Wang to the dean’s office.
"Haha, Dr. Li, please, have a seat! So young and promising! A hero erges from the youth, indeed!"
The mont Dean Song saw Li Xu, he ca forward enthusiastically, without a hint of a dean’s usual airs.
After so pleasantries, Dean Song got straight to the point, expressing his desire to specially appoint him as an expert at the City Hospital of Traditional Chinese dicine and offering him very generous terms.
Faced with Dean Song’s enthusiastic invitation, Li Xu was grateful but still hesitant.
His own clinic, the matters with Ding’s Pharmaceutical Factory, and his one day a week of consultations at the District Hospital of Traditional Chinese dicine already took up most of his ti and energy.
Moreover, the intel he occasionally received also required him to travel.
He simply didn’t have any spare ti to hold consultations at the City Hospital of Traditional Chinese dicine as well.
Just as he was thinking, ’How should I turn him down?’, the phone in his pocket suddenly rang.
He took it out and looked at the caller ID: Professor Gao Guanghui from the Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese dicine.
Li Xu gave Dean Song an apologetic smile and answered the phone.
"Hello, Professor Gao."
"Haha, Li Xu, am I interrupting you?"
Professor Gao’s hearty voice ca from the other end of the line. "My recent research project has successfully concluded. I don’t have anything major going on for the next while, so I have plenty of free ti and plan to hold consultations at the hospital. Are you free lately? If so, co find . I’ll take you under my wing."
Upon hearing this, Li Xu was overjoyed. ’This is perfect! I’ve been worried about my weak fundantals and was looking for a place to study properly.’
Besides, Professor Gao had already invited him several tis before.
He seized the opportunity and agreed. "Professor Gao, that’s wonderful. I was just thinking I’d like to follow you and study hard. I’ll co over next week."
"Great! Then it’s settled! Starting next Monday, you’ll report to every Wednesday and Thursday!"
After hanging up, Li Xu looked at Dean Song with an apologetic expression.
As for Dean Song, he was already stunned.
He had heard it loud and clear—that was Professor Gao Guanghui on the phone!
Who was Gao Guanghui?
He was the leading authority in the provincial world of traditional Chinese dicine, a great expert renowned throughout the entire country!
To receive his personal guidance and instruction was an opportunity countless young doctors dread of.
And yet, Li Xu had actually managed to get Professor Gao to personally call and invite him.
This showed that in Professor Gao’s eyes, Li Xu was no longer just an ordinary "student."
Dean Song was filled with regret.
He knew he had found out too late and acted too late.
Compared to the Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese dicine and Professor Gao, his small City Hospital of Traditional Chinese dicine no longer had any appeal.
He sighed and offered his congratulations. "Dr. Li, my congratulations. To receive Professor Gao’s favor is a trendous blessing and the pride of Feng City’s dical community. When you return from your studies, I still hope you’ll consider coming to our City Hospital of Traditional Chinese dicine."
Dean Song still hadn’t given up hope.
"We’ll see when the ti cos."
Li Xu didn’t agree, but he didn’t completely refuse either.
...
「City Hospital of Traditional Chinese dicine, Acupuncture Departnt.」
There was none of the ergency departnt’s clamor and chaos, nor the internal dicine ward’s heavy, oppressive atmosphere.
The entire departnt was filled with the faint, unique scent of burnt moxa, and the atmosphere was tranquil.
The departnt head, Director Zhu Quanxin, was twirling a long, thin steel needle, completely focused on treating a patient with facial paralysis.
Although he was over sixty, his spirits were high and he was full of vigor.
He was also the anchor of the City Hospital of Traditional Chinese dicine’s Acupuncture Departnt, with exquisite dical skills and vast experience.
He especially excelled at treating post-stroke complications, facial paralysis, and various pain-related disorders, and was widely acclaid among his patients.
In the ward, several patients were undergoing moxibustion therapy. Most of them were Director Zhu’s regulars who ca for acupuncture and physical therapy a few tis a week, and they had complete faith in his skills.
Just then, the door to the consultation room was thrown open.
Zhu Quanxin’s apprentice, a young doctor nad Xie Ping, burst in, his face flushed with excitent and panting for breath.
"Mas... Master!"
Xie Ping had run in such a hurry that he was stuttering.
Zhu Quanxin’s brow furrowed, and he chided in a low voice, "So rash and reckless! What has beco of your decorum? Can’t you see I’m administering a needle to a patient? Whatever it is, can’t it wait until I’m finished?"
"No, Master!"
Xie Ping realized his gaffe. He lowered his voice, but the excitent in it didn’t lessen in the slightest. "Master, sothing miraculous just happened over in the ergency departnt!"
He leaned in close to Zhu Quanxin’s ear and, with so embellishnt, recounted the story he had just heard about Li Xu using acupuncture to remove the pork bone.
"...with just a few steel needles and a couple of pokes, that piece of pork bone, bigger than a jujube pit, ca flying out with a ’BLECH’! All the doctors there were completely dumbfounded!"
The hand with which Zhu Quanxin was twirling the steel needle couldn’t help but pause for a mont.
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